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A Provisional Irish Republican Army member was sentenced to death for murder before abolition was extended across the UK. European Union human-rights protocols signed in 1999 abolished the death penalty in EU nations, but the UK is no longer an EU member. [18] 1998 Mahmood Hussein Mattan, convicted and hanged 1952, conviction quashed 1998. [19]
Parker confessed to the murders, and was sentenced to death on January 21, 1999. [1] Following his conviction, another man, Kevin Lee Green, who had been charged with the attack of the pregnant woman who survived and who was his wife at the time, had served 16 years in prison; he was subsequently exonerated and released. [2]
Garcia Glenn White was executed by lethal injection in Texas on Tuesday for the murder of 16-year-old identical twin sisters 35 years ago.The execution makes him the sixth death row inmate killed ...
The Innocence Project was established in the wake of a study by the U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Senate, in conjunction with Yeshiva University's Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, which claimed that incorrect identification by eyewitnesses was a factor in over 70% of wrongful convictions.
Vincent Alfred Simmons (born February 17, 1952) is an American man who was a life prisoner at Angola State Prison in Louisiana, where he was sentenced to 100 years in July 1977 after being convicted of the "attempted aggravated rapes" of 14-year-old twin sisters Karen and Sharon Sanders of Marksville. [1]
Since a death penalty conviction automatically sets in motion a series of appeals, the Innocence Project aided Williamson's attorney, Mark Barrett, in exposing several glaring holes in the prosecution's case and the credibility of the prosecution's witnesses. Frank H. Seay, a U.S. District Court judge, ordered a retrial.
Jeffery Lee "Jeff" Wood (born August 19, 1973) is a man on death row in the state of Texas. He was scheduled for execution in 2008 and 2016 before stays of execution were issued. [2] As in the case of Kenneth Foster, [3] Wood's death sentence stems from the Texas law of parties, which is related to the felony murder rule. [4]
Rodney Rodell Reed (born December 22, 1967) is an American death row inmate who was convicted on May 18, 1998, by a Bastrop County District Court jury for the April 1996 abduction, rape, and murder of Stacey Stites, a 19-year-old resident of Giddings, Texas.